To verify that the tape in question is not the cause itself you can
test it and overwrite any old data wth e.g

tar cf  /dev/rmt/2 /

just make sure the right tape is mounted and note that the tar command will 
overwrite the label.

maarten 


On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:28, Ernest Naila wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have labelled a tape that was used by another backup software ( EMC Data
> Manager ) and when I run a backup; networker only 992KB and says the tape
> is full.
>
> What can be the problem here ?  Here is the output from Networker.
>
>
>
> May 9 22:36:53 dhpbck01 root: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] NetWorker media:
> (notice) LTO Ultrium-2 tape 020298 on /dev/rmt/2cbn is full
>
> May 9 22:36:53 dhpbck01 root: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] NetWorker media:
> (notice) LTO Ultrium-2 tape 020298 used 557 MB of 190 GB capacity
>
> May 9 10:54:22 dhpbck01 root: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] NetWorker media:
> (notice) Volume "" on device "/dev/rmt/0cbn": Block size is 1024 bytes not
> 65536 bytes. Verify the device configuration. Tape positioning by record is
> disabled
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ernest Naila
>
>
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